Branford medical device maker approved to build new facility
Ivy Biomedical Systems, a privately-held Branford medical device manufacturer, has received approval to build a research and corporate headquarters building near the town’s border with Guilford and North Branford.
Branford’s Planning and Zoning Commission approved plans for the roughly 30,000 square foot building at 819-841 E. Main St. earlier this month. The principals of the limited liability company that submitted the plans were James Biondi of North Haven, who is listed as president of Ivy Biomedical Systems and Thomas Abbenante of Guilford, who is identified in public documents as a founder of the company, which was launched in 1984
Ivy Biomedical is currently located 11 Business Park Drive, which is located just off Interstate 95 near the Stony Creek interchange.
The new facility will be built on a site of just over nine acres off of Route 1 that used to be an apple orchard. The bulk of the land the new facility will be built on is located in Branford.
Officials at Ivy Biomedical did not respond to inquiries about when construction of the new facility might get underway. Plans submitted to Branford officials indicated that new facility will have room for the company’s 48 existing employees as well as capacity for another nearly two dozen workers that the company expects to hire over time.
Ginny Kozlowski, chief executive
officer of REX Development / Economic Development Corp. of New Haven, said Branford attracts a lot of health care and biomedical companies because of its proximity to Yale University and the ability to draw upon the New Haven area’s talent pool.
“The costs of being in Branford are certainly more affordable than New Haven, just as New Haven is more affordable than being in Boston,” Kozlowski said.